“The Stage” is announcing an event which will delight the theatre lovers: the famous Jeremy Irons, known to all cinemagoers from many interesting films, not all of the same value, will return to the Royal Shakespeare Company after an absence of 23 years. The captivating actor will star in a play at the Hampstead Theatre.
The play, signed by Dennis Kelly, is called “The Gods Weep”, is directed by Maria Alberg and it will be performed between 12th March and 3rd April.
T.S. Eliot’s poetry on stage
The actress Fiona Show is performing on a new production of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, the well-known poem which had an overwhelming influence over modernism. Wilton’s Music Hall, a splendid Victorian building, reopened in 1997 and is now hosting, although it is still in need of improvement, a 40 minutes enactment in which a single actress, playing with voices, succeeds in keeping the boredom away from the audience. According to the theatre critic from the “Evening Standard”, the performance is “bold, sharp, detailed, contemplative, yet also dramatic”. Which means nothing is missing from it.
A clever and warm comedy, “with oceanic depths”, the same contented critic concludes, pointing out that those who have not read the famous poem will discover the endless richness in T.S Eliot’s writing, but also a versatile actress, guided by spirit.
How would it be to have “At the Bats” by Marin Sorescu, staged in Romania?!
“Wherever“ with Cirque du Soleil.
In the Romany language, “varekai” means “wherever”. It is the title of the show performed by the Canadian company Cirque du Soleil, directed by Dominique Champagne, reviewed favourably by the British press. Aside from a few kitschy moments, the show relies on the traditional image of wandering, unsettlement and flight. The performers, in quaint costumes, resort to the entire acrobatic range of the classic and less classic circus, the show being mostly based on visual effects.
According to a cultural journalist, “Varekai” has glamour, imagination, a name that defies gravitation and a flicker of eroticism. When will we be able to see it in Romania?
Translated by Ecaterina Godeanu, MTTLC, 1st year
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